Vientiane (VNA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is providing 2.1 millionUSD (17.5 billion kip) in initial assistance for the strengthening ofhealthcare services in Laos, local media reported.
With11.3 million USD committed for 2016-17, the amount of funding has increased by22 percent over 2014-15, the English-language newspaper Vientiane Times said.
Anagreement for the funding was signed in Vientiane on February 8 by Minister ofHealth, Associate Prof. Dr Bounkong Syhavong, and WHO Representative to Laos,Dr Juliet Fleischl, in the presence of director generals of the ministry'shealth departments.
Speakingat the ceremony, Assoc. Prof. Dr Bounkong said the WHO was a good partner toLaos because it played an essential role in improving the health sector and wasa strong supporter of health reform.
Hewas pleased to see that health projects were taking into account Laos'commitment to achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals alongwith other health priorities.
Thefunding will support efforts to reduce the mortality rate of mothers andchildren; improve and increase the quality of healthcare services for mothersand infants; and bolster communicable diseases surveillance and responseincluding the control of HIV/AIDS, dengue fever, tuberculosis and otherdiseases.
DrFleischl said the 2017 annual funding plan would continue to directly supportthe Ministry of Health in agreed technical areas of the 8th Health SectorDevelopment plan such as immunisation, communicable diseases surveillance andresponse, and maternal and child health, as well as strengthening the healthsystem.
Underthis new plan most of the funding is allocated to the Expanded Programme forImmunisation and Emerging Diseases Surveillance and Response.
Theannual funding plan developed by the WHO and the Ministry of Health'sDepartment of Planning and International Cooperation was adopted by otherdevelopment partners and remains the main tool to support the aid strategy.
The annual funding plan for 2017 is in line withthe new Lao People's Democratic Republic - WHO Country Cooperation Strategy for2017-2021 which will be launched later this month, according to thenewspaper.-VNA
With11.3 million USD committed for 2016-17, the amount of funding has increased by22 percent over 2014-15, the English-language newspaper Vientiane Times said.
Anagreement for the funding was signed in Vientiane on February 8 by Minister ofHealth, Associate Prof. Dr Bounkong Syhavong, and WHO Representative to Laos,Dr Juliet Fleischl, in the presence of director generals of the ministry'shealth departments.
Speakingat the ceremony, Assoc. Prof. Dr Bounkong said the WHO was a good partner toLaos because it played an essential role in improving the health sector and wasa strong supporter of health reform.
Hewas pleased to see that health projects were taking into account Laos'commitment to achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals alongwith other health priorities.
Thefunding will support efforts to reduce the mortality rate of mothers andchildren; improve and increase the quality of healthcare services for mothersand infants; and bolster communicable diseases surveillance and responseincluding the control of HIV/AIDS, dengue fever, tuberculosis and otherdiseases.
DrFleischl said the 2017 annual funding plan would continue to directly supportthe Ministry of Health in agreed technical areas of the 8th Health SectorDevelopment plan such as immunisation, communicable diseases surveillance andresponse, and maternal and child health, as well as strengthening the healthsystem.
Underthis new plan most of the funding is allocated to the Expanded Programme forImmunisation and Emerging Diseases Surveillance and Response.
Theannual funding plan developed by the WHO and the Ministry of Health'sDepartment of Planning and International Cooperation was adopted by otherdevelopment partners and remains the main tool to support the aid strategy.
The annual funding plan for 2017 is in line withthe new Lao People's Democratic Republic - WHO Country Cooperation Strategy for2017-2021 which will be launched later this month, according to thenewspaper.-VNA
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